Armed men kill baby boy, injuring parents in Eravur

[TamilNet, Thursday, 17 August 2006, 06:53 GMT]Unidentified armed men forcibly entered a house in Mavadivembu village located in Eravur police division in Batticaloa district around 9.30 p.m., Wednesday and indiscriminately fired at a family killing one and half year old baby boy and injuring his father and mother, police sources said.

The dead child has been identified Nimalan Nilukjan and the injured father Kandiah Nimalan aged 22 and mother Jegatheesan Jeyamalar aged 19. They were earlier residing in Karaveddi in Batticaloa district. Later they shifted to Mavadivembu, the sources said.

Mavadivembu village is located about 18 k.m. north of Batticaloa town.